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WIP - Recycled Hardwood Bench
I've been watching Dan's, Groggy's and Kman's bench builds and decided it was time i stopped procrastinating and got stuck in. I'd been collecting bits of hardwood for a while with the intention of making a bench but hadn't really found much worth keeping when my BIL rang and said he was demolishing a house and did i want any hardwood. :D YES PLEASE.
After a morning scavenging through the mountains of timber I came home with a trailer load of fairly rough sawn, extremely well seasoned hardwood. I didn't see the house standing so have no idea how old it was but all the wall studs were M&T'd into the top and bottom plates. You can see some of the tennons in the first photo. They don't build 'em like that any more.
I spent a couple of days checking each bit of wood for nails and lucky i did because i found a couple :doh: as you can see in the second photo.